Druid's Country Retirement

Chapter 206 Going to the Market
The next morning.

The morning fog had just dissipated, and Li Hongbing was waiting at the entrance of the village with Shan Xing and Anna on a three-wheeled motorcycle with the cub in his arms.

This time, all the children were brought to the market. They were not blind or foolish, but only Dahua and Xiaobai. In case a child gets lost, they are more useful than people.

After a while, little kids rushed out of the alley excitedly, carrying green canvas bags, with either sweet potatoes or corn in their mouths, and white steamed buns for those in better condition.

He ran to the three-wheeled motorcycle and greeted him in a hurry.

"Master, have you eaten yet?"

"Little aunt, is the bear cub feeling better?"

"Almond milk."

"big flower."

"noob."

Counting the heads, Anna and Anna had a total of 13 children. Those who did not come were all young children. It is estimated that the adults in the family would not let them go out, worrying that too many people would go out, fearing that it would be unsafe.

Li Hongbing straightened his face, and called the children who were jumping up and down to him.

"Listen to me. You can go to the market, but you are not allowed to run around. If anyone is dishonest, stay in the village as soon as possible, and don't make trouble for me."

During the warning, the cub in his arms poked his head out and looked at the children curiously.

A group of little kids headed by Tie Dan said while making strange faces at the bear cubs.

"Understood, Grandpa."

"Before going out, my father told me to listen to my grandfather and not to run around."

"I'm obedient and never run around."

I am most worried about you!
Li Hongbing glared at Tie Dan viciously, handed the bear cub to Anna, and waved, "Get in the car."

The children yelled and climbed into the car, each found a place to sit down, and the envious group of Li Hongqi who came after smelling the smell licked their faces and asked to go to the market too.

Being directly ignored by Li Hongbing, having a group of children is already troublesome enough, and adding a heartless Li Hongqi is not purely embarrassing oneself.

Start the three-wheeled motorcycle, drive out of Caogou Village, and walk away.

Only Li Hongqi was left cursing and standing at the entrance of the village.

Driving on the winding mountain road.

The children had long lost the freshness they had when they first got on the train, and they sat in the carriage drowsy one by one, drowsy.

Li Hongbing took a look in the rearview mirror, this is not acceptable.

It's rare to go to the mountains without getting restless.

"Iron egg!"

"What are you doing?" Tie Dan raised his head, as if he hadn't woken up.

"What song did you learn at school, give it to Grandpa."

Hearing the singing, the kids all came alive.

Tie Dan cleared his throat, and howled in tune.

"The sun is shining in the sky, the flowers are smiling at me, and the little bird is saying early, early, why are you carrying a pack of dynamite on your back?"

"I went to blow up the school, but the teacher didn't know, and I ran away as soon as I pulled the string, and the school was blown up with a bang!"

After singing, he proudly showed off to other children.

"That's it, I'll come too!" Scarlet stood up contemptuously, as if intending to compare his singing voice with Tie Dan.

Brew for a moment.

"When the sun came out, I played on the swing, and when the swing was over, I played on the wires. Suddenly, there was a surge of electricity, and I was sent to the Hall of Hades."

"I lit a cigarette for Hades, and Hades praised me for being a good boy. Year after year, I finally returned to the human world."

"I'm chewing big bubble gum, and I'm thinking of the old flower girl..."

good good!
The children heard the car full of applause, and even Anna clapped her hands with a blushing face. Although she didn't know what it meant, it sounded fun.

Tie Dan was annoyed.

How could my status be defeated by the rogue, a flash of inspiration flashed in my mind, and I thought of that long-lost nursery rhyme.

This is a unique trick. Every time the adults sing, they will praise themselves for singing well.

Whoa, whoa, whoa! !

Clearing his throat again, he sang proudly and attracted everyone's attention.

"Little rabbit, be good, break Yuetui apart, butt up, I want to come in.

"No break, no break, I won't break, don't wear anything, uncle is so bad!"

Whoops, I wipe!
Li Hongbing subconsciously pinched the brakes, and the adults, children and dogs in the carriage were thrown staggeringly.

After parking the car steadily, Li Hongbing got out of the car and ran to the side of the car, pulled out the iron egg, pressed it on his leg, and slapped it down.

"Tell you not to learn well, tell you to sing nursery rhymes, and tell you to be a bum."

Shan Xing's crescent eyebrows stood erect, and even her good temper was annoyed by this song.

"Hit, beat to death, what kind of nonsense are you singing?"

Ahhhhh!
Tie Dan screamed so badly that the children in the car were too scared to make a sound. Even the bear cubs hid in Anna's arms, not daring to show their heads.

For the rest of the journey, the children followed the elementary school students one by one, sitting upright in the carriage, their eyes drifting to the grinning Tie Dan from time to time.

Driving out of the mountain road, I picked up a few old people who were going to the market.

To Songbai Town.

Tricycles drive slowly on a crowded street.

It is rare to be able to catch a trip to the market, which is full of great attraction for children.

The eyes are not enough to look around.

The first stop is of course Laowei’s mutton soup.

Li Hongbing parked the car on the side of the road, got out of the car and greeted the children.

"Don't even look at it, come down and stand in a row and report the number."

Whoops!

More than a dozen children jumped out of the carriages and lined up. The villagers around the market are no strangers to this. Many remote villages participate in the market, and each car is full of people.

"one."

"two."

"three."

"Thirteen."

"Huh."

"Ow."

"Ouch."

Li Hongbing nodded in satisfaction, "Very good, it's too early to go now, everyone is there, turn right, walk in unison, the goal is Lao Wei's mutton soup."

The voice just fell.

boom!
Whoops!

pain!
More than a dozen children bumped into a ball, some covered their noses, some covered their faces, and some covered their foreheads.

"Master, where is the right?"

"Turn there?"

"What is a right turn?"

Li Hongbing was speechless.

I also blame myself, the village always talks about the direction, and the left and right are still too unfamiliar to them.

"See the curtain sign hanging across the street, go there."

The children complained in one go.

"It's enough to say that the curtain signboard is not good."

"That's right, all the tears came out."

"You also said, look at your front teeth, they dug a hole in my forehead."

Now Li Hongbing felt that taking them out to the market was really an unlucky idea, so he shouted angrily.

"Shut up, line up and eat mutton soup."

Hearing about eating mutton soup, the children's eyes lit up instantly, and they immediately shut their mouths tightly.

Old Wei's mutton soup.

The open-air stalls are surrounded by simple wooden boards, and several long square tables are full of guests drinking mutton soup inside.

It is white mutton soup, with green onion and coriander floating, sprinkled with pepper, scooped a spoonful of red oil and chili, drank a big mutton soup, and then took a sip of wine.

Comfortable! !
The laziness that hadn't faded after waking up was washed away by mutton soup and white wine in an instant.

A large pot with a diameter of one meter is placed on the oil drum stove, and the tumbling mutton soup emits bursts of aroma.
Old Wei was wearing an oily apron, and stood in front of the table, cutting meat with a kitchen knife, and from time to time picked up the towel around his neck and used it to wipe off the sweat on his face.

Jinzhi's sister-in-law was busy pouring wine, collecting bowls, cleaning tables, and greeting customers in the booth.

"Brother Wei." Li Hongbing smiled and greeted him.

Hearing someone calling him, Old Wei casually raised his head for a glance, immediately showed a simple smile, put down the kitchen knife, rubbed his hands on the apron vigorously, and walked out of the desk.

"Uncle Hongbing, why did you come out of the mountain, is it too early?"

"No, I just arrived in the town, so I brought the children over to try your handicraft."

Looking past Li Hongbing, Old Wei saw a neat line of dolls, including Anna and Shan Xing.

"The girls are here too, wait, I'll find a seat for you."

After finishing speaking, Lao Wei turned and walked into the booth. There was really no room for so many people to sit. He immediately turned around and ran to the back of the booth, brought out a five or six meter long wooden board, and then went to get bricks.

Li Hongbing hurriedly took over, "We'll do it ourselves, you hurry up and get busy, the guests are waiting."

Old Wei looked back, and in just a short while, four or five customers who ate mutton soup walked away and stood in front of the counter, "That's ok, let's say hello to what you want to eat. Madam, did you see Uncle Hongbing came? What are you doing?"

Sister-in-law Jin Zhi glared at her man, threw a pile of bowls and chopsticks in her bosom into the basin, and walked over cheerfully.

"What's the rush, Uncle Red Soldier is not an outsider."

"It's okay, you guys go and get busy, I can do it myself." Li Hongbing waved his hand to signal Mrs. Jin Zhi not to help, then turned to the children behind him and said, "Go and move the bricks here for the board."

Rural bazaars are different from food courts in cities. If you want to be clean and hygienic, don’t come here as soon as possible.

A brick can be used as a stool, and a board can be used as a table.

As for the image, what are those few?

The children may not be good at learning, but there is absolutely nothing to say about their hands-on ability.

Move planks, yard bricks.

Soon a table will be completed.

Everyone sat around the table on brick stools.

Mrs. Jin Zhi hurriedly brought over mutton soup and sesame seed cakes.

Being too busy alone, Li Hongbing served temporarily as a waiter, but when he picked up the soup bowl, he found that there was too much mutton in the soup.

Even Dahua and Xiaobai have a fleshy bone.

Although it is in the countryside, the cattle and sheep are raised locally, and the cooked mutton costs seven to eighty-one catties.

Regardless of the large number of customers in Lao Wei's booth, those people ate haggis soup, lamb heart and lung, beef heart and lung, a big bowl of five yuan and ten yuan, and the mutton is only eaten by foreigners.

"Brother Wei, where are you?"

"Half-year-old, eat poor old man and eat more meat, so that you can grow strong." Old Wei chuckled.

Li Hongbing nodded his thanks, and took a bowl to distribute to the screaming children waiting.

A large bowl of mutton soup is full, and there is still less soup and more meat.

This made the kids salivate, their eyes wishing they could get into the soup bowl.

When did you eat mutton in the village? On weekdays, the only meat you can eat is lard residue.

I looked at it and swallowed my saliva.

But the children didn't move their chopsticks. This is the rule of being beaten. Adults don't move their chopsticks, but children can't.

Li Hongbing picked up the chopsticks and said, let's eat.

In an instant, the children picked up the chopsticks and began to eat, and the sound could catch up with feeding the animals.

During this period, Mrs. Jinzhi also came over to refill the soup twice, and gave away biscuits once.

It was a pleasure to eat this meal.

Lao Gao with a bulging belly dared not burp when he was full, for fear that mutton soup would spurt out of his ears and eyes.

"Are you full?" Li Hongbing put down his chopsticks.

The kids nodded repeatedly, but they didn't dare to say anything.

"Let's go then."

Li Hongbing got up and left, and the children followed behind with their stomachs outstretched.

When Lao Wei finished his work, he came out and wanted to talk to Li Hongbing, but found that they had already left, he smiled indifferently, and was about to clean up the dishes, but he froze in place.

"Boss, what's the matter?" Mrs. Jin Zhi walked over.

Old Wei reached out and took out a stack of money from the bottom of a soup bowl. Without counting the thickness, he knew that it was no less than 1000 yuan, and passed it to the wife and said.

"Uncle Red Soldier is a famous person."

……

go to market.

In addition to buying is to eat.

There are a variety of snacks, but Tiedan and the others can only look at Anna greedily, eating mutton skewers with one hand and candied haws with one hand, eating with relish.

That is called a regret in my heart.

If I had known earlier, I would not have eaten so much mutton soup.

Walk on a crowded street.

I'm not afraid that the children will get separated. Wherever Dahua and Xiaobai go, there will be fierce images of them grinning and baring their teeth, let alone passers-by rushing to get in the way.

In case of being bitten, it is estimated that three injections of rabies vaccine are rare.

Don't worry about the electrical appliances at home, the eldest brother-in-law said it's all covered.

Shan Xing bought quilts and bed sheets, and bought some fabrics for sewing clothes.

The rest is daily necessities such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, pots and pans.

You don't need to take it after you buy it, just have someone send it to Sanpao's business hall.

By the way, I bought a toy gun, new clothes, school bags and some odds and ends for each of the children.

They all came out to play.

You can't say Grandfather is stingy.

stop-and-go.

When I came to the stalls selling aquatic products, there were basically four big family fish, and some wild fish in the river. If you say wild fish can’t be sold, but the forest area has been selling it like this for so many years, no one cares about it, and no one checks it.

After passing a booth, Li Hongbing glanced at it, walked forward a few steps, retreated, and squatted in front of the booth.

The boss is a sister-in-law. Seeing Li Hongbing with a bunch of dolls, she asked with a smile.

"Young students, I have all the fish you want, buy some yellow mulberry for the children, and the children will be smarter after eating this fish."

Li Hongbing didn't go to see the yellow mulberry fish recommended by the boss, but pointed to the two big turtles in the basin.

"How did you sell these two tortoises?"

In the water basin, there are two tortoises, one with a black shell and the other with a brown shell, especially the black shell. The gap between the tortoise shells seems to be inlaid with silver threads.

The size of the two tortoises is more than [-] centimeters, and the black shell is bigger. The species are ordinary tortoises, which are not protected animals, but it takes at least ten years to grow to such a large size, which is very rare.

Moreover, these two tortoises should be a couple, sticking together tightly, raising their heads, staring straight at Li Hongbing with their black eyes.

The boss is an honest person, he didn't look at the order, and said directly.

"These two turtles were caught by my man from the river. We don't eat turtles in the forest area. If you want them, it's cheap, 20 yuan a catty."

It is indeed cheap.

If this kind of wild tortoise is sold in the city, it will cost at least 50 yuan per catty, and if it is sent to a place where the tortoise is eaten, it will be less than 200 yuan per catty.

"Doctor Li, you've come to town." A few townspeople walked over to say hello with a smile on their faces.

Li Hongbing smiled and took out a cigarette to scatter around, then stuffed the cigarette into the street guy who was talking.

Huazi again.

Doctor Li is bright.

The Zhenliuzi's face brightened, "Doctor Li, buy some fish."

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the boss, "Sister Liu, this is my brother Li, you don't want to show it when you visit your stall."

The boss seemed to be very afraid of these thugs, looked at Li Hongbing in embarrassment, and was about to speak.

"Just 20 catties, let me weigh it." Li Hongbing said first.

Two tortoises, weighing 13 catties, cost 260 yuan.

The street runners just saw the two turtles in the pot, they couldn't help admiring a few times, and then laughed and joked.

"Doctor Li, you still need to eat turtles to make up your body, don't you..."

"Fart, take it home and raise it. With my body, Lu Bu and Sanying are fine."

Li Hongbing laughed and cursed back without any color.

Others regard these street sneakers as beasts, but in his view, they are a group of young people who are out of tune with the countryside. After accepting new things, they feel that the countryside cannot accommodate them, and they always want to do something new and different to attract others' attention.

Straightforward, but more able to get their approval.

"It's just that you are free, help me to send the turtle to Sanpao's house, and tell him by the way, go to his place for lunch, cook a few more dishes, and remember to have a drink too."

"Alright, it's on the way."

A few street runners picked up the tied tortoise and walked towards Sanpao's house with a wobble.

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(End of this chapter)